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paragraph, place the cursor anywhere in that paragraph and double-click the desired
paragraph style.
TIP: Docking the Style and Formatting Window
By default, the Styles and Formatting window is a floating window; that is, it
opens in its own window that you can place anywhere on the screen. To make
it appear always in the same part of the Writer interface, you can dock the
Styles and Formatting window. To do so, drag its title bar to the left or right
side of the main Writer window until a grey frame appears, then release the
mouse button to position it there. To undock the window and make it appear
as a floating window again, just drag its title bar to a different place.
The docking/undocking mechanism applies to some other windows in
OpenOffice.org as well, including the Navigator.
2.4.3 Using Styles Versus Using Formatting
Using styles rather than the Format menu options and buttons helps give your pages,
paragraphs, texts, and lists a more consistent look and makes it easier to change your
formatting. For example, if you emphasize text by selecting it and clicking the Bold
button, then later decide you want emphasized text to be italicized, you need to find all
of your bolded text and manually change it to italics. If you use a character style, you
only need to change the style from bold to italics and all text that has been formatted
with that style automatically changes from bold to italics.
Text formatted with a menu option or button overrides any styles you have applied. If
you use the Bold button to format some text and an emphasis style to format other text,
then changing the style does not change the text that you formatted with the button,
even if you later apply the style to the text you bolded with the button. You must man-
ually unbold the text and then apply the style.
Likewise, if you manually format your paragraphs using Format > Paragraph, it is
easy to end up with inconsistent paragraph formatting. This is especially true if you
copy and paste paragraphs from other documents with different formatting. However,
if you apply paragraph styles, formatting remains consistent. If you change a style, the
change is automatically applied to all paragraphs formatted with that style.
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